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W. P. HALL & P. G. HUBERT ELEVATOR.

Patented Apr. 24, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. HALL AND PHI LIP G. HUBERT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ELEVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,396, dated April24, 1883.

Application filed February 14, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, WILLIAM F. HALL andPHILIP G. HUBERT, both of the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented certain Improvements in Elevators, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention has for its object to avoid the expense and loss ofvaluable room which results from the necessity in hotels,apartment-dwellings, &c.', of having two separate elevators-one for theuse of the tenants and visitors and the other for the servants; and ourinvention consists in constructing the elevator'cage and arranging thehalls and passages so that the same cage may be employed for bothpurposes,reqnirin g the services of but a single attendant.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view in section, showing part of anapartment-dwelling, the elevator-well, and the cage. Fig. 2 isanelevation upon the line 1 2, Fig. 1.

In apartment-houses as now constructed there are necessarily twoseparate elevators one for the tenants and their visitors and the otherfor servants, whose presence with their various utensils, loads of fuel,&c., would be objectionable in the cage designed for the tenants. Theduplicate apparatus thus employed in a building where a single elevatorwould have sufficient capacity to transport all the passengers is notonly objectionable on account of the expense of construction andoperation, but also from the loss of room which mightotherwise beutilized with great benefit. To avoid this loss of room, as well asother expenses incidental to the use of two machines, we use but onemachine and a single cage, which latter is subdivided by a partition, a,provided with a sliding or hinged door, b, so that there are twocompartments, X X, into either of which the attendant can step at amoments notice, so as to operate the cage by means of the rope d, whichmay extend over the usual pulley, e, and through both compartments, asshown; or it may be arranged in any other suitable manner. Thecompartment X may be entered by a door, 3 which communicates withopenings leading to the passages or halls win the tenants quarter,

and a door, 9, leading from the compartment X, corresponds to doorsleading to passages o in the servants quarter. By this arrangementthehallsin the tenants quarter are not obstructed by the servants withtheir loads and utensils, yet the servants with such loads andimplements can obtain free access to the elevator-cage, but when thereare wholly separated from the tenants should the latter occupy the cageat the same time. The attendant may operate the valve-rope from eithercompartment, and may pass from one compartment to the other, so that themachinery is managed by a single attendant, and all the serviceheretofore secured by two elevators is obtained at the expense of but asingle attendant.

It will be obvious the arrangement of halls, doors, and passages and thedivisionof the cage will vary according to the construction of thebuilding and the position in which the elevator-well must be placed.

Ett'orts have been made to overcome the objections to the use of twoelevators in one building by making the car with a servants compartmentbeneath the tenants compartment. Such cars have been operated by theattendant in the upper compartment, and the same doors in the landingshave been used for passage to and from both compartments.

In practice this has been found extremelydangerous, as the opening andclosing of thedoors at the landing when the lower compartment is usedcannot be done by the operator, but must be effected by the servants,who are out of sight of the operator. Numerous accidents have thusoccurred.

We claim- 1. The combinationv of an elevator-cage havin g two separatedcompartments and two doorways with a building having a well, with twoseries of doors arranged opposite said doorways and affordingcommunication with halls at different sides of the well, substantiallyas set forth.

. 2. An elevator-cage having two doorways divided by a partition, (1,provided with a door, I), in combination with a valve-rope, 01,extending through both compartments, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM F. HALL. P. G. HUBERT.

Witnesses:

Orro BAUMANN, (J. J. SOLYOM.

